Peter Gibson

Wellsite and Operations Geologist (HPHT and deep water experience)

SUMMARY

** *****’ experience including:

19+ Years’ operations and wellsite geology experience

* *****’ production / development geology experience

PERSONAL

Nationality: British Citizen, Australian Resident

Home base: Warrnambool, Victoria, Australia, currently residing in Perth

Email: adc5w5@r.postjobfree.com

Mobile: +61-402-***-***

BIOGRAPHY

I am geologist with 33 years’ experience with 19+ years in operational roles including:

7 years as an operations geologist with Shell in Australia;

1 year as a senior operations geologist with Inpex Operations;

2 years as an operations geologist with Woodside Energy;

Considerable wellsite geology experience across multiple basins throughout Australia, South Korea and Papua New Guinea;

9 years as a development geologist with Chevron;

Field mapping experience in Papua New Guinea with BP.

I have extensive operational experience which when coupled with a background in development geology results in considerable expertise in the drilling and evaluation of petroleum wells along with a solid understanding of the fundamentals of geoscience.

EXPERIENCE

Consultant Senior Operations Geologist – Inpex

January 2020 to April 2020 (4 months)

Senior operations geologist planning a high profile mid to deep water HPHT wildcat in the Browse Basin, Australia. My tasks and achievements at Inpex included:

Interfaced with drilling engineers, geologists, petrophysicists, pore pressure and geomechanical specialists resulting in a robust plan to drill Bassett Deep-1, a complex mid to deep water HPHT exploration well in the Browse Basin, Australia.

Delivered comprehensive well specific geological operations program, formation evaluation and fluid sampling program, and pore pressure evaluation program.

Evaluated 3rd party contracts (mudlogging, and wellsite geology).

Priced wireline logging operations and compared various technologies to provide cost effective acquisition of wireline logging data.

Senior Geologist, Drilling Operations – Geological Survey of Victoria

October 2018 to present (12 months)

Project management for the planning of a 3000 m onshore stratigraphic well including: scope, schedule, QHSSE, risk and issues, procurement and contracts.

Working with procurement to contract and manage engineering services for detailed design and project execution.

Informing government on all aspects of conducting a drilling operation.

Preparing detailed offset well review and subsurface hazard identification including qualitative pore pressure assessment.

Preparing basis of well design documentation including collecting and analysing FIT/LOT data, pressure and temperature data to aid in well design.

Interpreting reservoir pressures using legacy DST data.

Preparing conceptual well designs.

Preparing geological data acquisition programs including operations and wellsite geology procedures, evaluation program and coring program.

Consultant Senior Wellsite Geologist – Woodside Energy

December 2015 to November 2017 (~2 years)

Wellsite geologist for Swell-1A, a high profile mid-water HPHT rank wildcat exploration well located in the Southern Exmouth Sub-basin, Australia with pore pressures up to 1.76 sg (14.2 ppg) and mud weights up to 1.8 sg (15.0 ppg). In addition to the standard wellsite geology duties, I developed a workflow to track all pumps-off events, drilled gas, connection gas, swab and trip gas along with mud weights, static and dynamic densities and compared information with 3rd party pore pressure models to provide an integrated pore pressure solution.

Wellsite geologist for the Persephone and Lady Nora batched drilled high pore pressure horizontal development programs on the North West Shelf of Australia.

Consultant Senior Operations Geologist – Inpex

March 2014 to December 2014 (9 months)

Senior operations geologist planning a high profile mid to deep water HPHT wildcat in the Browse Basin, Australia. My tasks and achievements at Inpex included:

Prepared offset well and geo-hazard / HPHT reviews including a review of mud weights, total gas, kicks, losses and ballooning in offset wells. This study resulted in a significant change to the planned mud weight strategy for the proposed well.

Interfaced with drilling engineers, geologists, petrophysicists, pore pressure and geomechanical specialists resulting in a robust plan to drill Bassett Deep-1, a complex mid to deep water HPHT exploration well in the Browse Basin, Australia.

Delivered comprehensive well specific geological operations program, formation evaluation and fluid sampling program, and pore pressure evaluation program.

Evaluated 3rd party contracts (mudlogging, wireline and palynological services).

Assisted the New Ventures Team in the evaluation of offset wells and the basis of design for a shale gas project. This work resulted in the application for and subsequent award of acreage to Inpex in the Northern Territory, Australia.

Consultant Operations Geologist – Shell

August 2006 to March 2014 (~8 years)

I was the sole operations geologist for 25 high pressure and low permeability mid-water exploration, appraisal and horizontal development wells in the Browse Basin and one deep water wildcat HPHT well drilled to ~6000 mMDRT in 1300 m of water in the Carnarvon Basin. My work at Shell included the planning and execution of Shell’s flagship Prelude floating LNG project comprising 8 horizontal wells drilled to a depth of ~4100 mTVDSS.

I was responsible for all aspects of operations geology including:

Defined the scope of work, evaluated tenders and managed 3rd party contracts including wireline logging, mudlogging, LWD, sample storage, wellsite geology and palynological services.

QHSSE audits of 3rd party mudlogging, LWD, wireline and palynology units.

Performed offset well and geohazard reviews ensuring all subsurface risks were identified in the planning phase and documented in the drilling program.

Prepared landing strategies (geosteering strategies) for 8 batch drilled mid water horizontal development wells on Shell’s flagship FLNG project at Prelude.

Prepared comprehensive well planning documentation including: geological well proposals, well specific geological operations programs, formation evaluation and sampling programs and detailed pore pressure evaluation plans.

Provided qualitative pore pressure monitoring and acted as focal point for pore pressure evaluation team.

Facilitated log and sample the well on paper sessions.

24x7 monitoring of drilling operations.

Technical and quality assured all geoscience data received from the wellsite and distributed data to subsurface team, regulatory authorities and partners.

Provided qualitative pore pressure monitoring/evaluation and acted as focal point for pore pressure evaluation team.

Led MDT and RCI pressure and fluid sampling programs (remotely).

Mentored graduate geologists.

Delivered high quality comprehensive end of well reports and final composite logs in compliance with regulatory requirements.

Key achievements at Shell included:

Drove QHSE performance and mentored junior staff.

Safely planned and executed Shell’s flagship FLNG development comprising 8 x horizontal development wells drilled to ~4100 mTVDSS.

Safely planned and executed 17 x HP mid-water exploration and appraisal wells and 1 x HPHT deep water wildcat well.

Created a post Macondo pore pressure evaluation process to improve pore pressure surveillance at the wellsite

Core member of the well planning team for 8 HPHT horizontal wells at Prelude.

Investigated techniques to identify lithofacies and provide real time evaluation of kh.

Provided advice to free a stuck pipe at Crescendo-1.

Brainstormed a novel approach to dealing with a stuck casing string at Rigaudon-1.

Diagnosed depth control issues with wireline logs and implemented controls and procedures to ensure accurate depth control was maintained on subsequent wells.

Consultant Operations Geologist – Woodside Energy

October 2004 to August 2006 (2 years)

Provided operations geology support for numerous exploration and development wells in the Timor Sea, Carnarvon, Otway and Browse Basins for Woodside Energy.

Key achievements at Woodside included estimating the oil-in-place for various fault blocks, assisting with well design and the development of a geosteering programs for the Wanaea/Cossack infill drilling campaign and the Thylacine development program.

Consultant Wellsite Geologist – Various Oil and Gas Companies

April 2000 to October 2004 - (3 1/2 Years)

Wellsite geologist for a variety of oil and gas exploration and development companies in South Korea and Australia including: KNOC, Apache and Woodside Energy. This work included geosteering horizontal development wells.

Staff Development / Production Geologist – Chevron (WAPET)

November 1990 to January 2000 (~9 Years)

Development geologist for Australia’s largest oilfield – Barrow Island. The field is a low permeability, mature waterflood operation with stacked reservoirs and ~1000 wells.

Experience and responsibilities included:

Correlated and mapped missing sections for 1000 wells on Barrow Island to create a detailed structure map based solely on well control.

Proposed and geosteered several horizontal wells including branched and underbalanced horizontal wells.

Reservoir characterisation and building 3D geological models.

Compiled detailed development plans for several reservoir horizons.

Production mapping leading to identification of infill drilling locations and hydraulic re-frac candidates.

Studies in vertical and areal sweep efficiency and decline curve analysis resulting in infill drilling recommendations and identification of hydraulic re-frac candidates.

Petrophysical evaluations.

Identification of near field and infill drilling locations.

Well proposals (including: infill, nearfield extension, injector, deepening’s).

Reserve estimation and risk assessment.

Presented to partners and regulatory authorities at technical workshops.

Operations and wellsite geology.

Assistant Geologist – BP

December 1986 to November 1990 (~4 Years)

Experience included wellsite geology and field mapping in Papua New Guinea. My work at BP included drawing cross section through the thrust belt based on surface mapping.

EDUCATION

M.Sc. Petroleum Geology: University of Aberdeen, Scotland.

B.Sc. Applied Geology: Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia.

TRAINING

2019: Petrel Fundamentals, Geology and Well Design

2017: CA-EBS (compressed air breathing apparatus)

2017: Pore Pressure Prediction

2017: IWCF Welltrain HPHT Drilling Course

2017: IWCF (International Well Control Forum) Level 1 eLearning program

2017: OPITO Helicopter underwater escape & offshore survival and safety training

2014: Wellcad Software Course (Composite log generation)

2012: Geologix Software Course (Composite log generation)

2011: Numerous Contract Management Workshops (Shell in house training)

1999: Gocad Geological Modelling Workshop

1998: Introduction to Seismic Stratigraphy

1998: Basic Seismic Interpretation

1998: Practical Reservoir Simulation

1995: Sequence Stratigraphy

1995: Horizontal Well Analysis

1995: Reservoir Management

1994: Reservoir Characterisation

1994: Exploration Economics, Risk Analysis and Prospect Evaluation

1993: Waterflood Management

1992: Applied Sub-Surface Geological Mapping and Structural Geology

1992: Reservoir Characterisation

1991: Creating Successful New Play Concepts

1991: Formation Evaluation – Basic and intermediate concepts

1991: Basic Petroleum Well Log Interpretation

1989: Geochemistry for exploration and Production

1988: Structural Geology in Petroleum Exploration

PUBLICATIONS

Gibson, P., 2017: Qualitative Pore Pressure Evaluation – 12 things every Wellsite Geologist should know! LinkedIn Article.

Gibson, P., 2017: Real Time Pore Pressure Evaluation – What’s your plan? LinkedIn Article.

Ellis, G., Tait, A.M. and Gibson, P.J., 1994: Mid-Cretaceous Concretionary Carbonate Reservoirs at Barrow Island, Western Australia. In Purcell P.G. and P.R.: The Sedimentary Basins of Western Australia. Proc West Australian Basin Symposium, Perth 459-475.

REFERENCES

Stephen Rigby: General Manager Exploration – Inpex

Landline: +61 8 9217 5668; Mob: +61-439-***-***

Email: adc5w5@r.postjobfree.com

Michael Harvey: Asset Commercial Lead - Exploration - Shell Australia

Landline: +61 8 9338 6929; Mob: +61-404-***-***

Email: adc5w5@r.postjobfree.com

Peter Unstead: Development Manager – Todd Energy

Phone: +64-21-195-****

Email: adc5w5@r.postjobfree.com

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